Houseboat Variations
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| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Houseboat Variations |
| Author(s): | JiM |
| Date(s): | 1997-1999? |
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| Fandom: | The X-Files |
| External Links: | Series index page on the author's website. |
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Fanfiction for The X-Files was frequently characterized by the violence, paranoia, and apocalyptic themes of the series. JiM's Houseboat Variations stands out as a series of stories whose themes are peace, forgiveness and reconciliation between characters who were often violently at odds with one another in the show. The stories have multiple pairings--slash, het and threesome. The unifying element is that all of the stories take place on a boat five years after the events of the series; with a single exception, they take place on a houseboat where one or more of the characters has come to live. Water, rain, loss and renewal are motifs that run through the stories, which are both hopeful and melancholy.